Thinking progressist on the Internet
A new website called Non Fiction has been opened last monday. The claim of the website could be summarized by that expression "A portal of books and ideas" . It's a website of news, ideas, and books reviews. The website has been created by researchers, journalists, activists, unionists, webmasters and entrepreneurs. This website aims to tie again with an intellectual journalism of quality, to allow to a new generation of researchers to speak. Their goal is simple but brave, they want to modernize progressists political ideas by reviewing and giving value to books of social sciences and to open the french ideas to the international.
The website is called Non fiction because of the fields dealt with : essays, documents, ideas articles... The core of the concept is based on pragmatism, and reality. They want to get rid of t he politic fiction. It's a pluralistic space anchored in the reality.
The logo epitomises the reconciliation between the Internet and the writing.
Thinking future needs a new generation of researchers, reviewers and journalists. The main way for this website to become a success is mingling excellence, exigence and transmission. As the creators say Internet is nor good nor bad, Internet is what we do with. It should become a reliable source of information, and a serious tool for the development of ideas.
This website is above all a medium, a medium who goals to become a sort of New York Review of Books on the Internet. It wishes to seriously debrief of the life of ideas, books etc.